this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
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Sure. It obscures the last connection from you to the VPN, so even if someone did a traffic monitoring attack to the VPN it wouldnt be trivial to map it all the way back to the user.
Of course this means your vpn operator knows you used Tor, but in my mind that's probably better then the isp knowing